Geschichten & Skizzen (Book release) Sat 19.10. / 18h Motto / Vitrines Skalitzer Straße 68, Kreuzberg, 10997 Berlin, Germany
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Geschichten & Skizzen Eine fortlaufende Sammlung von Bildern und Geschichten, die in verschiedenen Gesprächssituationen entfaltet und besprochen werden können.
Outlines & Scenarios An ongoing collection of scenarios and sketches being rolled out and talked about in various conversations.
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Der Konzeptkünstler lebt und arbeitet zwischen Berlin und Athen. Seine künstlerische Tätigkeit ist performativ, poetisch und meist seriell. Schwerpunkte bilden dabei Eingriffe in bestehende Systeme sowie Konstruktionen sozialer Räume und interaktiver Ereignisformate. In seiner aktuellen Arbeit legt der Künstler seinen Namen ab.
Launch of “Chroniques Terriennes” by Mathieu Cesar, published by Mars Amusements and Motto Books, Thursday October 10 at 6pm.
“Chroniques Terriennes” is a look-at book from the perspective of men and women, based on the idea of space adventure.
Mathieu Cesar’s encounter with the Ariane group enabled him to bring together old and new friends for an epistolary journey aboard a real rocket, the beautiful Ariane, the 6th of its kind. Signatures and photographic portraits bear witness to the richness of each encounter in a book that offers a fascinating mosaic of fraternity and an exploration of its many facets.
kunstenaar ANN VERONICA JANSSENS titel werk VOORSTELLING VAN EEN RONDE VORM – REPRESENTATION D’UN CORPS ROND tijdsduur 27 APRIL – 3 JUNI 1996 opening 26 APRIL 1996
ARTMargins Vol. 13.1 ; Socialism In Contemporary African Art
This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa’s radical history face the challenge of responding to a generalized amnesia about the continent’s protagonism on intellectual and political radicalism after 1945. Working with under-researched themes, scarce historical records, and apprehensive oral sources, these artists are often tasked to amplify forgotten pasts while simultaneously critiquing the political contingency of historical investigation in global contemporary art. Global contemporary art—largely shaped by the neoliberal transition that followed the very histories explored by these artists—is often shown in its limitation to engage with socialist history critically. Through the authors’ analyses, many artworks nuance discussion of the erasures, fixed narratives, and nostalgia for Africa’s socialist past. Looking to this past, artists attempt to reorganize contemporaneity and its typical disregard for history beyond romanticization. Talho (2014), a work by Mozambican photographer Filipe Branquinho, is analyzed as a case study raising central questions on contemporary artists’ engagement with Africa’s socialist past.
by Álvaro Luís Lima.
February 2024.
Introduction Socialism in Contemporary African Art: Butchering the End of Time Álvaro Luís Lima
Articles “We Need a Lighthouse Philosopher”: Filipa César and Louis Henderson’s Sunstone (2018) and the Portuguese Genealogy of Lens-Based Media Delinda Collier
Make Me a Picture of the Future: Massinissa Selmani’s 1000 Socialist Villages (2015) Natasha Marie Llorens
The Mythography of Socialism in Contemporary Angolan Art Nadine Siegert
The Politics and Aesthetics of Liberation: Revolution and Its Aftermath in Contemporary Artistic Practice from and about Lusophone Africa Ana Balona de Oliveira
Abstract States: Modernism in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey Gemma Sharpe
Artist Project As the Nile Flows or the Camel Walks Dawit L. Petros, Black Athena Collective
Document Introduction to “Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes” Polly Savage
Cultural Offensive of the Working Classes Tempo, Polly Savage
A repository of vital knowledge and conceptual therapeutics, a toolbox for the willing and the needy —Anders Dunker, Los Angeles Review of Books
We are at one of those turning points that divide history into a ‘before’ and an ‘after.’ The ongoing transition from an information economy to an economy based in the workings of the brain and the mind has radical implications for human freedom and creativity, both of which are under threat from a rapacious, neurologically-oriented form of capitalism. Such moments require new languages in order for the unnamed, the unsayable, and the misunderstood to become known.
This is the task taken on by Warren Neidich’s Glossary of Cognitive Activism, now appearing in an expanded and fully revised fourth edition. Each of its entries—which range in topic from the central nervous system and brain-computer interfaces to ChatGPT and conceptual art—explicates a key term in contemporary culture. The cumulative effect is astonishing: while every entry can profitably be read in isolation, the Glossary as a whole amounts to a brilliant account of the material brain’s entanglement with its surrounding environment.
For Neidich the human brain is far more than grey matter encased in a skull: it is profoundly integrated with the social, political, and cultural phenomena that constitute the world in which we live. For this reason, human cognition is profoundly vulnerable to the new despotism that is seeking in various ways to reshape it, but it also has the capacity to serve as the site of potent acts of resistance.
Forging connections between such apparently disparate domains as neuroscience, ecology, political economy, and aesthetics, Neidich’s Glossary restores human cognition to its rightful status: not as the passive object of technological interventions or reductive theorizing, but as the starting point for any viable form of egalitarian and liberatory politics.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Warren Neidich Artist/Writer BIO (2022)
Trained in art, architecture, neuroscience, and medicine, Warren Neidich uses written texts and neon-light sculptures, written texts, photography and video to create cross-pollinating conceptual works that reflect upon situations at the border zones of art, critical neuroscience, and cognitive justice. He is founder and director of the Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art (2015-2024). Awards include Getty Research Institute award (2023), Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR (2020 and 2021), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2021), and Katalogförderung des Berliner Senats (2017), Vilém Flusser Theory Award, Transmediale (2010), and a AHRB/ACE Arts and Science Research Fellowship (2004). Selected one-person and group exhibitions include the Venice Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1 MOMA, Walker Art Center, MIT, Museum Ludwig (Köln, Germany), Haus Der Kunst (Munich), Zentrum für Kunst and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,( Wolfsburg Germany) KAI10 (Dusseldorf) and Kunsthalle Nuremburg, (Nuremberg, Germany). He was a tutor in the Departments of Visual Art, Computer Science, and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2004–2008), Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Delft School of Design, TU Delft School of Architecture, 2006-2010 and Professor of Art at Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin (2016–2018). He has been a visiting lecturer in the Departments of Art at Brown University, GSD Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, the Sorbonne in Paris, France; and the University of Oxford and Cambridge University in the UK. His work has been the subject of over 150 magazine and newspaper articles, including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Bomb Magazine, Kunstforum International, Berlin Art Link, Der Tagesspiegel, 032C, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Artnet, GQ, Forbes, Vogue IT, Monopol, Performance Art Journal, and Frieze. Selected published books include American History Reinvented, 1989 (Aperture, NYC) Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain, 2002,(DAP, NYC, NY and the University of California, Riverside, CA.) Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noo-Politics, 2012, (001 Publishers, Rotterdam) Neuromacht,2015 ( Merve, Leipzig), The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (Archive Books, Berlin), 2013, 2015, 2017 and An Activist Neuroaesthetic Reader,2022, (Archive Books, Berlin).
Before you were forever Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Marianne Heier (Eds.) Motto Books
Contributions by Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, Marianne Heier, Mercedes Mühleisen, and Maxi Wallenhorst
A discreet, yet unapologetic, feminist reading of the past and present with a particular focus on deconstructing inherited notions of identity and gender. It seeks to examine the impact these have had on contemporary relational modalities in order to find new capacities to dissect the resulting interpersonal dynamics. There is a wish to pause automatisms that suffocate the mind.
« From the dusty shafts of an ancient quarry to the transgressive reattunement in metramorphosis, this book is a revolt against false separation. Mika says: Will you stick around long enough for us to hum together? Marianne says: Like a gasp in slow motion. Swoosh. Falling into modernity. Maxi says: You stand for how I, crucially, do not even know who I am talking to. Mercedes says: An endless string of mouths has shaped the story again and again. Wash off those goosebumps and listen. Bracha says: The artist in the matrixial dimension is wit(h)ness in com-passionate hospitality. »
2024 Edition of 500 Edited by Mika Hayashi Ebbesen and Marianne Heier Graphic design by Rafaela Dražić Printed in Italy by Musumeci S.p.A. English, Norwegian Pages: 152 Size: 16 x 12 cm Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9782940672493 20€
